Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Sixteen

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[JustPiper]

Credit: The Cabal

The title refers to a daily report given to the president of the United States detailing the most serious terrorist threats against the country. To tackle those threats, the government has formed a top-notch task force to infiltrate the terror cells and cut off the danger.

"Every morning, the president receives a list of the top ten terrorist threats - this list is known as the threat matrix."

We here at FR are trying to be in conjunction with the daily reports around the world that involve threats. We try to provide a storehouse of information that takes hours of research.

YOU be the Judge and get informed.


"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat."

Link to Thread Fifteen

Police Secure Businesses on Terror Alert
NEW YORK - Police searched trucks, blocked streets and posted machine-gun toting officers outside financial landmarks Monday, a day after the government's chilling warning that terrorists might target the buildings with bombs.

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
-- Jewish proverb

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the
enemy who wishes to do us harm.




"What good are the color codes at all if we are suddenly hit with a bio or chem attack? There would be no warning and the danger would be instant."

"Code Red Implications
Code Red - Stay Home and Await Word."
by MamaDearest

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[JellyJam]

"Suspicious activity - and nothing done about it" (That's my headline!)

Washington, D.C. -- Increased security is everywhere in the Nation's Capitol. Tourists and visitors alike agreed when asked that if they saw anything suspicious, they would call 911.

That is exactly what officials tell the public to do but Mike Maney says he did not receive an adequate response. Two weeks ago he called the FBI and Homeland Security to report three middle eastern men videotaping support beams on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge but no one came out to investigate the incident.

The FBI said they were investigating the calls and Valerie Smith, spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security released this statement on Wednesday:

"At the Department of Homeland Security, we rely on the vigilance of all citizens to be aware of unusual activity and to report it to local law enforcement. We are deeply sorry that, on this occasion, Mr. Maney did not get the immediate response he deserved. We are currently looking into his inquiry and determining how to improve this process." (Hello, FBI, you work for us ... and we're working for you!)

The FBI says they are trying to find out just why Maney's call was not acted upon. All of the agency officials contacted in reference to this story say they will continue to count on residents calling with reports of suspicious activity.

[myprecious]

Has it really been that long since the Tiananmen Square Massacre?

June 4, 1989. My fifteen year old was born that morning and I watched live coverage throughout the night.

[Velveeta]

LOL!

[HipShot]

One Species

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

How dumb do they think we are.

Real dumb. It makes no since at all for training.

Oh lets just put some Arabs on a plane and then go arrest them. Where is the training?

[Don Joe]

Re missing bio material on that site -- here's the last bio for "KOOGE".

Catch it while you can, it's already gone from the google cache, and I'd wager that if he's intentionally dusting over his tracks, the archive.org "footprints" will be removed before too long also. (They will remove from their archives upon request.)

Here's a list of his earlier bios, going back to October 2002. I haven't examined them, so I don't know how different they are from the last one (linked above), dated July 15, 2003.

Note:

To check out all available archives for any URL, simply preface the "http://" part with "http://web.archive.org/*/" in your browser's Address box.

The URL for all (available) archived versions of the "KOOGE" bio is therefore "http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.risingstartelecom.com/kooge_bio.html" (without the quotation marks!)

Here's the content of the last available "KOOGE" bio:

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Kujaatele Kweli (KOOGE)
Chief Executive Officer

Kujaatele (Kooge) Kweli has more than 33 years experience as a team leader and project manager for numerous small to medium scale economic development projects in the United States and throughout the world from the complete design of a cable television city for Washington, D.C. to the feasibility study for renovation of the market in Gambia (USAID).

Kooge has served as a senior manager for five major community and economic development organizations including Freedom National Bank, Imani Magazine/Communicator, the National Urban League, the Booker T. Washington Foundation, and the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.

He has advised four U.S. presidents in economic development policies and strategies. Additionally, he has been a leading advocate and pioneer in the use of telecommunication systems for economic and community development.

Kooge is currently Station Manager and Department Chair at OTV, Orlando Tech, and Television training program. He served as director of the Florida Motion Picture Association for 4 years, as well as produced and organized: "Orlando; Ready to Roll" in conjunction with the Mayor's Office to mark the emergence of Central Florida as a major mecca for film and TV production.

Kooge recieved the National Republican Committe Congressional Medal of Distinction in 2000 and the Business Advisory Council 2001 Businessman of the year.

Kooge is also director of the AngelWorks Institute where he lectures, writes, and coordinates an innovative human relations and personal empowerment training program. Kooge has over 200 credits in production of a wide variety of media production from international satellite teleconferencing featuring President Ronald Reagan to numerous television series, corporate and instructional videos. Currently Kooge is coordinating the design and implementation of GlobalProtector.net, a unique Application Service Provider that allows filtered access to the web barring pornography, interest, and other undesirable elements.

[Velveeta]

Will be here tomorrow for the rest of the story.

Take care and elevate that leg!

[Revel]

One thing we can determine from the recent ramp up in security and the collection of supicious people is that the fed's are expecting something to happen sooner rather than later. Planes are being boarded-turned around-and flights canceled. This indicates to me that they expect something to happen way before Oct 2nd.

[Velveeta]

Amen.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I remember when Tom Tancredo was a part of your tagline! It really is maddening that for every step our country takes to defend itself, we still leave most of our borders open. I was reading an article yesterday probably here on FR where someone was quoted as saying it is financially and humanly impossible to protect our gazillion miles of border areas. Well, then let's build a wall or a fence, I say.

[Velveeta]

Thanks for the information. Will report if I hear anything.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Flights have been canceled? I had not heard about this.

[Velveeta]

Indeed.

[ExSoldier]

I'll check around some, I do have some LEO contacts and folks in Congress, but for now I'll just ruminate on what our old buddy EOM said about tomorrow morning New York, Baltimore and Miami getting nuked.

I know it's all B$, but living in a city that could be a literal ground zero in a matter of hours is a little bit unreal.......I have to go back to work next week and I'll be teaching Psychology again, this must be subconscious preparation for that. Yeah, that's the ticket! Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

YALL READ THIS THIS TIME:) LOL This is what I think all the fuss is about and have not heard anything else about...not sure if this links even works but it is saved on thread...

Posted by DAVEY CROCKETT to All
On News/Activism 08/04/2004 1:44:45 AM EDT · 766 of 1,249


San Francisco-London flight cancelled over suspicious behavior


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c...4/08/03/SFO.TMP

Virgin flight at SFO halted
Suspicious behavior of passengers was reported to officials

Steve Rubenstein and Charlie Goodyear, Chronicle Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 3, 2004

A Virgin Atlantic Airways flight bound for London from San Francisco International Airport was canceled Monday night after suspicious behavior by several passengers was reported to authorities.

Virgin's Flight 20, scheduled to leave at 4:30 p.m., was barred from departing "based on suspicious activity by some passengers,'' said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the federal Transportation Security Administration. The FBI later took charge of the case, according to a San Francisco police spokesman.

Hundreds of passengers were taken off the flight and left waiting at the airport, with little explanation. A Virgin spokeswoman declined to comment on Monday night, and the airline's Web site listed the flight only as delayed.

Four hours after the flight was first scheduled to take off, it was canceled, according to a federal official.

Passengers interviewed at the Virgin ticketing desk described two situations on the plane. The first involved an unruly passenger who was drunk and who caused a disturbance. About 15 minutes after that passenger was removed, passengers said, the flight crew called five passengers holding Romanian passports to the front of the jet, according to passengers.

"They were five passengers they didn't like,'' said Jamie Schutmaat of Sacramento. "They were acting weird.''

After those five passengers were removed, the rest of the passengers were asked to leave the plane.

Passenger Joe Snyder of Carmel Valley said the captain of the flight announced, "There are some people on the plane that we do not feel comfortable flying with.''

Security officers came onboard, pulling up seat cushions and searching under the seats.

San Francisco police officers then searched the 747 aircraft, and a police sergeant later suggested the incident "got blown out of proportion.''

Sgt. Larry Ratti, a spokesman for the airport division of the San Francisco Police Department, said one disorderly passenger was detained and questioned but by late Monday night had not been arrested.

"My information from the officers that boarded the plane is that there was just one unruly passenger,'' Ratti said. "It was enough that for the safety of all the passengers we decided to search the entire plane. It's a big plane. You want to search it thoroughly, and it takes a while to search something like that.''

Ratti said officers did not find anything suspicious onboard the flight.

The canceled flight came a day after terror alerts for cities on the East Coast and warnings that London might be a target for terrorists.

After the flight was canceled, inconvenienced travelers were offered free hotel stays by the airline.

"At the end of the day, if it's not safe, it's not safe,'' said one passenger who would identity himself only as Fernando. "I don't mind. Better to be safe than sorry.''

E-mail the writers at srubenstein@sfchronicle.com and cgoodyear@sfchronicle.com.

[Revel]

Yes there is the one that was canceled after being held up for hours because of supicious passengers.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I am happy to say I have no contacts with FBI,CIA or any law enforcement. RITFLOL

[Velveeta]

Thanks for that. I wonder why he'd be dusting his tracks???

[Domestic Church]

Small landslide...one school of fish affected?

[LayoutGuru2]

I received an email from the Jeddah-Online Yahoo! group today that is a bit disturbing after getting a translation through Tarjim. The original message was sent Saturday and was forwarded several times before it finally landed at JO. I think I'll post the original Arabic over at IH to see if someone can provide a better translation. It may just be a generic religious statement, but the machine translation made my hair stand on end.

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Subject: An invitation conceals you the Doomsday

A prayer is a reason in the concealment on you the Doomsday God willing
( oh Allah conceal me over the land and underground and the Day of Judgment )
How much will take from the time so that it sends it to other than ? ¿

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